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Updated: June 13, 2025
"He would turn this ancient symbol of fortune into a marketable commodity." "Pardon me; I was saying what might be done, not what I proposed to do. I found this emblem of good chance by chance, and I picked it with the 'wish' attacked to the stem. Thus to the utmost I have honored the superstition, and you have only to make your wish to carry it out fully."
An' yet there's a command in Deuteronomy, Ye shall na tak the millstone in pledge, for it's a man's life; nor yet keep his raiment ower night, but gie it the puir body back, that he may sleep in his ain claes, an' bless ye. O but pawnbrokers dinna care for blessings na marketable value in them, whatsoever."
It must have been at about the good-bye age of forty that Thomas Moore, that choleric and pompous yet genial little Irish gentleman, turned a sigh into good marketable "copy" for Grub Street and with shrewd economy got two full pecuniary bites out of one melancholy apple of reflection: "Kind friends around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather," he sang of his own dead heart in the stilly night.
Flattery and submission are marketable commodities like any other, have their price, and ought scarcely to be obtained under false pretences.
That aunt of a good-looking young woman sees a noble man of sixty admiring her five feet seven or so she's tall of marketable merchandise, and she doesn't need telling that at sixty he'll give the world to possess the girl. But not his family honour! He stops at that. Why? Lord Ormont 's made of pride!
A market or a fair one may, from such appearances, judge to be well or ill supplied: but for a state, which every aspirant for the empire of Greece has deemed to be alone capable of opposing him, and defending the liberty of all for such a state! verily her marketable commodities are not the test of prosperity, but this whether she can depend on the good-will of her allies; whether she is puissant in arms.
Regarding a soldier merely as a marketable commodity, doubtless the white was worth more money; yet life was about the same to each, and it was hard to see why one should be expected to sell his life for fewer dollars than satisfied the other.
We may repeat, therefore, as a prime excellence of Punch, that he is the maker of mirth for the million. He is mainly engaged in furnishing titillating amusement, and he furnishes an article, not only marketable, but necessary.
Trouble is that oil isn't a marketable asset until it reaches a refinery. We can sell stock, of course, but we don't want to do much of that unless we're forced to it. Our play is to keep control and not let any other interest in to oust us. It's going to take some scratching." "Looks like," agreed Bob. "Any use tryin' the bank here?" "I'll try it, but we'll not accept any call loan.
These feats however are not to be done, except in those states and times, I say, where orators wore mantles and pretty large ones too, my brethren, with some twenty or five-and-twenty yards of good purple, superfine, marketable cloth in them with large flowing folds and doubles, and in a great style of design.
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